Dumb gulper shark | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Squaliformes |
Family: | Centrophoridae |
Genus: | Centrophorus |
Species: | C. harrissoni
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Binomial name | |
Centrophorus harrissoni McCulloch, 1915
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Range of dumb gulper shark (in blue) |
The dumb gulper shark (Centrophorus harrissoni) is a rare and endangered deepwater dogfish, found along the east coast of Australia and in isolated spots north and west of New Zealand. It is also known as the dumb shark, Harrison's deep-sea dogfish, or Harrison's dogfish.[1]